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LEAPING LULU. American, Jig. B Minor ('A' part) & A Major ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle0. AA'BB. According to Sue Songer's (1997) notes, the melody was composed in 1972 while traveling in England by Greg Boardman, fiddler for the Maine band The Moosetones, on the occasion of hearing of friends' expecting a child to be named Lulu.

Source for notated version: Creighton Lindsay (Portland, Oregon) [Songer].

Printed sources: Songer (Portland Collection), 1997; p. 124.

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